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>English Channel allowed them easy access to Europe while keeping them protected from said Europeans
>Prime location on the Atlantic's ocean current network allowed them to engage in colonialism more effectively
>Prime land for Sheep which made them a textile powerhouse even in Roman times.
>Huge tracts of Coal close to the surface which allowed them the industrialize first, and whoever industrializes first essentially "wins"
>Possesses one of the worlds only sources of Tin, another important material for early industrialization.
>Had vast tracts of Naval quality lumber, enabling a robust maritime tradition.
As you'll see, each of these, while already great advantages on their own, are magnified by each other. For instance Tin and Coal enabling industrialization is symbiotic with their large Textile industry begging to be industrialized. The Lumber supply syncs up with the Atlantic Ocean currents and proximity to the Americas. England had the absolute perfect confluence of factors to be the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and world empire.

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How the fuck did some irrelevant tea drinking Anglo-Saxon barbarians manage to conquer 25% of the world when the Chinese invented guns first?…